Intel Arc Pro B50 is up to 20% slower than the Arc B570 gaming GPU in early Geekbench tests — almost doubles the A50 in synthetic tests

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Intel's Arc Pro B50 has appeared on a benchmark listing for the first time, providing a realistic idea of its performance. Spotted by Benchleak, the B50 was seen on Geekbench, where it scored 78,661 points in the Vulkan GPU test and 69,890 points in the OpenCL test. Those are relatively modest numbers, but somewhat expected given the card's specifications. The B50 is the lowest-end SKU Intel is currently producing, featuring only 16 Xe Cores, two fewer than the gaming-oriented B570.

Therefore, these results place the B50 behind the Arc B570 by approximately 15% in OpenCL and 20% in Vulkan, but ahead of the previous Arc Pro GPU, the Pro A50, by more than 40% when compared with the best A50 score we could find on Geekbench. Keep in mind that Geekbench results vary significantly, so direct comparisons are unreasonable when one GPU has multiple runs and the other only has one. Therefore, don't take these synthetic tests at face value.

Intel announced the B50 as part of its new lineup of professional GPUs earlier this year at Computex. Arc Pro B50 and B60 are both based on the Battlemage architecture, the third iteration of the Blue Team's contemporary graphics IP. The B50, in particular, utilizes a cut-down BMG-21 die—identical to the one powering the B570 gaming SKU—with fewer Xe Cores. Still, it features more VRAM, which is beneficial in workstation scenarios, as well as support for PCIe 5.0.

For a card with a 70W TDP, that doesn't require any additional PCIe cables, and comes with 16GB of GDDR6 memory (across a 128-bit bus), this result is not half-bad. If you're interested in getting your hands on one, Intel's latest Pro GPUs don't have an exact release date, as they were supposed to launch in August but have been delayed. However, Maxsun has recently said that it intends to ship them soon.

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jlake3

Availability is gonna be the big thing with these, followed by price.

Arc Pro A-series I believe was a paper launch - I heard rumor they were going to carry a minimal workstation premium and was interested, but on launch day only a small number of reviews went up with no pricing info, and there was no retail availability and no option from major OEMs to configure one. It was MONTHS before I was able to find listings... and the listings I did finally find were on kinda-suspect IT supply sites, with no pictures. They never made it to major retailers like Newegg or Amazon, and the few that showed up used on eBay advertised as "pulls from new systems" weren't priced favorably.

If these cost $400+ and you have to have connections just be able to put an order in, Arc Pro B-series is going to effectively not exist.
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thestryker

I would be shocked if the performance wasn't lower than the B570 given it has fewer Xe2 cores, 6GB more VRAM and an 80W lower TBP (B570 is 150W). These cards are simply aimed at low power with VRAM density.

It sounds like availability is going to be tight on the Pro B-series due to lack of GPU availability. It does sound like demand is high (relatively speaking) though so I'd expect the board partners to be emphasizing models that get them the highest margins.
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bit_user

jlake3 said:
Arc Pro A-series I believe was a paper launch - I heard rumor they were going to carry a minimal workstation premium and was interested, but on launch day only a small number of reviews went up
There are still very few reviews of the Pro A-series. I recently bought a Pro A40 for use in a server. Availability isn't great, but I found a few options that all had a final price (shipped) around $190.

jlake3 said:
They never made it to major retailers like Newegg or Amazon, and the few that showed up used on eBay advertised as "pulls from new systems" weren't priced favorably.
Oh, you can definitely buy them new. Not in retail packaging, though. At least, mine wasn't. This one is HP-branded, but I've seen regular Intel ones around (mine is). They're getting harder to find, apparently.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1816519-REG/hp_6e3y8aa_intel_arc_pro_a40.html
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Intel's latest workstation GPU, the Arc Pro B50, has made its first appearance on Geekbench, where it scored respectable numbers, placing it ahead of its predecessor but still trailing the B570 gaming GPU, which utilizes the full BMG-21 die.

Intel Arc Pro B50 is up to 20% slower than the Arc B570 gaming GPU in early Geekbench tests — almost doubles the A50 in synthetic tests : Read more
This would be a good 3-4 head (monitor) setup for stock traders and such. Lots of Vram for 4K setups, but you don't need to try to get 300FPS with your RBG in your rig lol
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bit_user

HideOut said:
This would be a good 3-4 head (monitor) setup for stock traders and such.
Yeah, even the Pro A40 has 4x mini-DP outputs. That was a big advantage vs. the Radeon Pro W6400, as well as having 50% more memory capacity and bandwidth + AV1 decoding and hardware encoding.
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bit_user said:
Yeah, even the Pro A40 has 4x mini-DP outputs. That was a big advantage vs. the Radeon Pro W6400, as well as having 50% more memory capacity and bandwidth + AV1 decoding and hardware encoding.
I was just looking those up. I guess the advantage with the new ones will be AI power if you need it, more than anything.
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